I'm not saying its the correct move, I'm saying it's at the least +EV if you're not sure what the correct move is.

Besides. We really shouldn't care about variance, we care about profit, and frankly the easier it comes the better. I played LHE scraping out 1.5bb/100 for a living for christ's sake. Hell, you wrote it yourself - remember how much fun the swings were when you were little?

HAND 5 This is IMO about as tough as it gets playing a half stack. Youve bloated the pot with a good hand and an overcard flops. Yawn.

Villain sucks. Running like 65/15 and he's shorter than even I am.

50NL (yes, dropped down because I want to be way overbankrolled because the variance is indeed high.)

GotNoSteerin: posts big blind $0.50
Dealt to GotNoSteerin [ Qs Qh ]
Linguini: calls
johnnymo: calls
jvick184: folds
dhstylez: folds
GotNoSteerin: raises to $2.50 Mistake #1. I'm in the BB with two limpers, this should be atleast 7x and since they suck at poker I could probably get away with 8x.
Linguini: folds
johnnymo: calls
*** FLOP *** [ Js, Kc, 8h ] Pot is $6ish.
GotNoSteerin: bets $4
johnnymo: calls
*** TURN *** [ 4s ] Pot is $14ish.
GotNoSteerin: is all in (villain has $13 behind and I cover)